Improvement in button-hooks



. G.L. PLATT.

Button-Hooks.

No. 218,570. Patented Aug. 12,1879.

ffff UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEK GEORGE L. PLATT, 0F WATERBURY,CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 218,570, (lated August12, 1879; application filed June 23, 1879.

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. PLATT, of Waterbury, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and ImprovedButton-Hook; and that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making part ofthis specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in button-hooks; andthe invention consists in a button-hook constructed with the ordinaryhook to en gage with the button, and a second hook to engage with thebuttonhole, substantially as is hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective View ofa gaiter, and showing the application of my hook for buttoning the same;and Fig.`2, a side view of the button-hook.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in both figures.

A represents the ordinary shank of a button-hook. At a suitable distancefrom the handle c this shank is bent into a hook, B, and continuingupward from the end ot' the hook B is a second hook, C, the two hooks'being of any convenient size and shape.

My button-hook, constructed as above described, is operated by insertingthe hooked end through the button-hole b oil the gaiter or glove to bebuttoned, encircling the shank ot' the button c with the hook C, and asthe button-hook is turned to bring the button to the button-hole, theedge of the button-hole b will enter into the hook B, which will therebydraw the button-hole b to the button c, while at the same time the hookC draws the button to the button-hole, in this way enabling thebuttoning to be done with facility, and with bnt one hand, if desired.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire., tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a button-hook constructed withthe ordinary hook to engage with the button, and with a second hook,adjacent to the lirst, adapted to engage with the button-hole of thegaiter or shoe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

GEORGE L. BLATT.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. COWELL, CHAs. G. Boor.

